September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Comparing an Igor Stravinsky piece from his early years with one from his latter years, you would not know they were written by the same man. Indeed, it seemed Stravinsky’s entire life reflected a personal progression: Russian-born, later becoming a French citizen, and eventually dying an American citizen. In a similar odyssey, his compositional style evolved from the late Russian Romanticism of his famous composer-teacher Rimsky-Korsakov into neoclassicism (writing modern tonalities into older classical forms), and later into Arnold Schoenberg’s ...
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